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James Van Straten

James Van Straten

Sep 25, 2026

4:03
And I would, you know, we can separate the US and Europe as well in the bond market, but what is your take here?
4:09
Well, what's fascinating is you've got the move index that's above 100, and that's just surged over the last two days, and you've got the VIX at like 50.
4:16
So like, I find that divergence just incredible.
4:21
You say the bond market's smart money, equities is dumb money, but like the dumb money continues to make money.
4:26
And I think it's gonna probably be another strong earnings for equities.
4:32
But PE ratios are actually declining.
4:35
I saw NVIDIA's making new lows, the S&P 500 on an aggregate basis, the PE ratios are low.

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17:39
I'll let you go because I have a question about the FX also.
10:48
But if you're like very, very deep into it and you're talking with other people about it, I think what people find difficult is that it's just going way, way slower than we would want or think is logical or rational.
11:01
I think everything's going at an exponential and we can't really comprehend how quickly everything's moving.
11:07
I was speaking to a Bitcoin OG this week.
11:11
He sold a large portion of his Bitcoin to front run and get into the AI trade.
11:19
And he then has kind of bought back his Bitcoin.
11:23
And then I asked him if there was one, he's a super AI nerd geek, like on the front line of agents and everything.
11:30
And I was like, if there was one asset you could hold for the duration of your life, what would it be? It was Bitcoin.

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27:58
Yeah.
23:24
What are you seeing out there? And what is your, what's your opinion here?
23:28
My opinion is, I did a timeline on this of all his decisions that he's made over the past few months.
23:36
And largely he's got a lot of things right.
23:39
But over the course of the past few months, he's got a lot of things wrong.
23:44
I actually interviewed him at his house in Miami in May.
23:48
And that was just before the drawdown happened.
23:51
That was before he announced the convertible bond buyback of one and a half billion.

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I was going to

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